Selected Works
Music
Chamber Works (published by Sea Gnomes Music)
- Romance
- Touching Souls
- Crystal Bells
- Lunamuse
- Mooncircles, 1975, Urana Records/Wise Women Enterprises, distributed by Olivia Records
- Prayer to Aphrodite
- Atlantis Rising
- The Rising Sun: Variations on an American Blues Theme
- The Seasons
- Winter Night, Gibbous Moon: Saga for Eleven Flutes
- Vocalise (on Bach's Prelude in C-minor)
- Earth Shadows for Bassoon & Chamber Ensemble
- Viriditas
- North Coast Nights
- Rondo
- Sailing Song
- Women at the Lakeside
- A Rainbow Path
Orchestral Works
- Lament for the Thousands
- Century March
- Rainforest (for chamber orchestra; recorded by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Leonarda Records)
- The Rising Sun: Variations on an American Blues Theme
- Night Chant
- Prayer to Aphrodite
- The Greenwood
- Quiet Harbor
Oratorio and Opera
- Ouroboros: Seasons of Life--Women's Passages (text: Charlie Hutchins and Ila Suzanne)
- Ladies' Voices: A Short, Short Opera (text: Gertrude Stein)
Choral Works (Mixed Chorus)
- Aquarian Anthem (text: Kay Gardner)
- Time is But the Stream...(text: Henry David Thoreau)
- Stopping By Woods (text: Robert Frost)
- Beloved Presence (text: Mohammed Hafiz)
- Three Sumerian Hymns (for chorus & large ensemble)
- Affirmation: A Benediction (text: The Upanishads)
- Mary Had a Baby (Traditional Spiritual)
- The Banshee Song (text: Kay Gardner)
- Lucina's Light: A Yuletide Pageant/Cantata (Women's Chorus)
- When We Made the Music (text: Kay Gardner)
- The Rootwomen (text: J. Goldspinner)
- A Creed for Free Women (text: Elsa Gidlow)
- Dancing (text: Susan Griffin)
- Song of the Dying Amazon (text: Shirley Tannenbaum)
- The Spider and the Fly (text: Mary Howitt)
- Charge of the Star Goddess (text: Traditional)
Solo Instrumental Works
- A River Sings (for solo cello)
- The Elusive White Roebuck (for horn & piano)
- Moonflow (on Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata; for flute & piano)
- Innermoods (for flute & guitar)
- Seven Modal Improvisations (piano with any instrument/s)
- Mariachi (for marimba)
- Travelin' (for guitar)
- Thou Little Tiny Child(piano arrangement of The Coventry Carol)
Solo Vocal Works
- Mother's Evening Prayer (text:Mary Baker Eddy)
- On Marriage (text: Kahlil Gibran)
- Fragments (text: Hsin Ping)
- Mindful of You (text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- Three Mother Songs
- Two Sapphic Songs (text: Elsa Gidlow)
- Wise Woman
- Beautiful Friend
- Changing
Lectures and Literature
- Music as Medicine: The Art & Science of Healing With Sound (9-hour lecture series on tape; Sounds True)
- Sounding the Inner Landscape: Music as Medicine (1990)
With Lavender Jane (Alix Dobkin, Gardner and Patches Attom)
- Lavender Jane Loves Women (1973)
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